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News: Recording

Genre-Bending Fiddler Casey Driessen's 'OOG' CD Release

April 15, 2009

GENRE-BENDING FIDDLER CASEY DRIESSEN 2ND ALBUM OOG SET FOR MAY 12 RELEASE . With one Grammy nomination and two years of solo touring under his belt for 3D, his debut release on Sugar Hill Records, inventive genre-warping fiddler Casey Driessen went back into the studio. On his independently released follow-up, Oog (Red Shoe Records, May 12 ...

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News: Recording

Julio Santillan - Sofia Tosello: New CD

April 15, 2009

JULIO SANTILLAN - SOFIA TOSELLO Present the music of their upcoming CD “Un Instante" The album features songs by Julio Santillan including a suite originally commissioned by the Secretary of Culture of Tucuman, Argentina, based on the brilliant poetry of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most important writers of the Spanish language. Julio ...

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News: Recording

Veteran Saxophone Master Steve Elson Releases Mott & Broome

April 15, 2009

Steve Elson is Mr. Saxophone. He plays the soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones with equal amounts of energy and preciseness, not to mention his additional range with the clarinet. With the release of Mott & Broome on Lips and Fingers Music scheduled to drop April 28, 2009, Elson has good reason to be excited. Mott & ...

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News: Recording

Frank A. Stokes Previews Walk with Me

April 15, 2009

Track list and performance credits for the album Walk With Me. Selections from this album are online at The Awakening's official MySpace page. 1. Sacred Journey 2. Walk With Me 3. Breeze 4. Something About 5. You Are Not Alone 6. Just Blue

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News: Recording

Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets' Echoes of Ethnicity

April 15, 2009

Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets +2 ECHOES OF ETHNICITY Owl Studios / April 14 Release Change is in the air these days, and change has come to Derrick Gardner’s long-standing group The Jazz Prophets. After over 20 years as a sextet with a firm front line of Gardner, trumpet, his brother Vincent on trombone and ...

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News: Education

Jazz St. Louis Holding Auditions in June for All-Stars, JazzU Programs

April 15, 2009

Jazz St. Louis has announced the dates for area music students to audition for the 2009-2010 JazzU and Jazz St. Louis All-Stars programs. Auditions for both programs will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday, June 1 and Monday, June 8 at Jazz at the Bistro. Auditions for JazzU and the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kim Bock, Flow to Present Free Clinic and Performance This Saturday, April 18 at Saxquest

April 15, 2009

In a previous post announcing a show by saxophonist Kim Bock and his jazz organ trio FLOW this Friday at The Gramophone, we mentioned that Bock would be doing a saxophone clinic the next day in south St. Louis at the woodwind sales and repair shop Saxquest. Saxquest president Mark Overton was kind enough ...

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News: Festival

Coachella Set Times Revealed

April 15, 2009

The set times for Coachella have been posted and it looks like the Ghostland Observatory set will be quite ghostly indeed. The freaky computer soul purveyors from Austin, Texas, have the misfortune to be cast into the Sahara tent during Leonard Cohen's sunset serenade Friday. We won't even mention the neglected stepchildren of the dance scene ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bessie Smith

April 15, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Bessie Smith's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bessie SmithBessie Smith- vocalist, composer, recording artist (1894-1937) “Empress of the Blues” She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how ...

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News: Contest

Announcing the Winners of the Highnote Records "Tom Harrell - Prana Dance" Giveaway!

April 14, 2009

Jeff Balter, Chris Albrecht, Patrick Narcisi, Willis Stanley Evans and Robert T. Smith, Congratulations! You're the winners of the HighNote Records “Tom Harrell - Prana Dance" giveaway! All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit HighNote Records for more jazz releases. ...